Mother of MS-13 Victim Fatally Struck by Car at Daughter’s Memorial Site

The grieving mother of a young girl killed by MS-13 gang members on Long Island was fatally struck by a car on Friday while preparing for a candlelight vigil at her daughter’s memorial, police said.

Evelyn Rodriguez, who attended President Trump’s State of the Union Address to spotlight the brutal slaying of 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, was struck by a vehicle in Brentwood at around 4 p.m. on what was two years to the day her daughter’s body was found in a wooded area off the same block, according to police.

Rodriguez, 50, was near where the remains of Kayla and her best friend Nisa Mickens, 15, were found. The two had been beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete by MS-13 gang members.